Project consulting

Your project fully in control, driving (continuous) Digital  improvements.

Without the right technology, you will not be able to realize best practice internal control functions and cost of control will increase, year after year. However, without the right strategy (S), structure (S), people (P) and processes (P), your technology (T) never will add the desired benefits, if any. In order to realize best practice internal control, you need to have an all-comprehensive strategy and a clear digital roadmap.

When would be a good moment to (re)define you (digital) internal control? At least before:

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Individual Lines become a silo and insufficiently collaborate.

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New risk areas and regulations are hard to manage of comply with.

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You take the decision to buy Controls, GRC or Audit technology.

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A decision is made for integrated GRC-solution or integrate point-to-point solutions.

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Add AI, RPA, Analytics or other digital solutions to your environment

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You decide to outsource (parts) of your internal control functions.

Finance & IT - optimised controls

We provide workshops, coaching or sparring partner sessions for (supervisory) boards, management and all key internal control leaders – as a group, individually, one-off or as a program.

SAP - maximum controlled environments

Templated and proven approach using the Three Lines model, SSPPT with Technology/Digital as driving force, and plateauthinking, maturity modelling, and horizonplanning.

Risk & Compliance - resilient & accountable

How the 2nd Line can grow in maturity:

  • Informal & reactive.
  • Defined, but siloed,
  • Actively integrated,
  • Real-time, strategic, Digital enabled partner.

Audit - adding value with combined assurance

How Internal audit can grow in maturity:

  • Audit as controls specialist.
  • Collaboration.
  • Audit as independent assurance provider.
  • Conveying trust.

Finance & IT – optimised controls

Let us help you to align your governance actors, create a clear context for them to collaborate in, maximize your support, and always have the right decision making capacity. We help organizations with strategic support on 3 levels:  

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Supervisory bodies - Helping supervisory bodies understand the strategic elements of internal control (SSPPT) and how they can be empowered by Digital solutions. We create insights in new risk areas, best practices and help to define and strengthen their governance roles & responsibilities. We help them improving supervision over controls functions, risk management, compliance and audit – maximising them adding value to the organization and limiting their risk of weaknesses in internal control functions.

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Board and management - Helping management define their (digital) internal control vision and ambition, translate it into the right governance structures, align assurance functions, and drive improvements via concrete action plans.

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All Lines functions - Helping all internal control functions individually to define and adapt digitally empowered best practices; from first Line controls execution, second Line risk & compliance to third Line audit.

We provide one-off group training & coaching, tailored individual sessions, but also more continuous reflection & sparring. Our programs help internal control leader towards a clear mission statement, a strong vision and a concrete board enabled roadmap to drive governance with technology and new Digital solutions.

BR1GHT’s article on building the right internal control environment

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SAP – maximum controlled environment

Our expert solutions can begin with a free initial assessment of your current SAP control environment, focusing on internal SAP risks and external threats. Our proven approach, supported by advanced technology, provides a clear overview of issues and a strategic improvement plan.

We then work on realizing a best-practice controlled SAP environment. If needed, we can embed these new best practices into your organization’s workflows, implementing continuous improvement capabilities and integrating all business lines into an effective structure. This ensures robust assurance on your SAP risks. Our approach can include the following SAP S&C areas:

  • ZSAP authorisations - managed compliance and risks - realise safeguarding of assets, continuity, fraud prevention and privacy.
  • ZSAP security - realising a maximum secured SAP environment.
  • ZSAP license management - getting compliant and save costs.
  • ZSAP S/4 HANA - FIORI - RISE - manage all the risk in your migrations.

SAP authorisations

SAP security

SAP license management

SAP migration to S/4 HANA & RISE

Risk & compliance – resilient & accountable

Operational consulting: Building best practice risk & compliance functions

We support Risk & Compliance departments to improve their operational excellence in 3 ways:

  • ZAssess and report improvement opportunities - The objectives of our engagements are to identify your current way-of-working and to help you set achievable objectives, with clear advices and if required a concrete roadmap.
  • ZRealize the improvements - We help you to realize your desired improvement via hands-on support (we actually build procedures, charters, etc.), best-practice frameworks or via sparring partnering.
  • ZHelp continuously enhance - We participate in your improvement or change program within your audit department or in your name in change project (eg, your controls specialist in a SAP implementation, etc.). We do this via a combination of the above a and b together with reflection sessions.

We focus on (please click on the options below to read what we can do for you):

Maturity & capability development 

Effective lines collaboration

Compliance readiness

Training & coaching 

Internal Audit – added value with combined assurance

Operational consulting: building best practice Internal Audit

We support Internal Audit departments to improve their operational excellence in 3 ways:
  • ZAssess and report improvement opportunities - The objectives of our engagements are to identify your current way-of-working and to help you set achievable objectives, with clear advices and if required a concrete roadmap.
  • ZRealize the improvements - We help you to realize your desired improvement via hands-on support (we actually build procedures, charters, etc.), best-practice frameworks or via sparring partnering.
  • ZHelp continuously enhance - We participate in your improvement or change program within your audit department or in your name in change project (eg, your controls specialist in a SAP implementation, etc.). We do this via a combination of the above a and b together with reflection sessions.
We focus on (please click on the options below to read what we can do for you):

Maturity & capability development

Effective lines collaboration

EQA & audit readiness

Agility and resilience

Training & coaching

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